News & Observations
To go with the wedding gift - 4 Jul 08
How do we tell you what you know we feel?
Us all together, whereever, always full of zeal
In just being there for all and each other
Going every which way and coming back together
Ravioli, minestrone, pizza and cannelloni
In Breccia, Verona, Padova and Venezia ...
Birthday - Merlot and Cigarettes - 19 Nov 07
My daughter Shelly is the organiser - drinks from 7 pm and the theme -
Merlot and Cigarettes - (most encompassing).
All friends and acquaintances most welcome, particularly
those who share these pages.
Black and White - 24 Oct 07
Funny? How much is lost in putting techni-colour in black and white?
The greener grass is now a darker shade of grey
As the gold and silver lose their lustre
All the eyes can say is yes or no.
Blue skies and white frilly...
Love - what we know - 14 Mar 07
Love life - we have it, no? Your choice.
Love nature - live with her, no?
What is it you have which is better?
Love yourself? What is in you woud deserve this?
Who knows? You do.
Love...
To Margaret - bless her heart - 21 Feb 07
CAPTURE IT- OCCASION - FUNERAL
For my immediate family, who could not be there - just a taste -
Back now from wnderful occasion - for all the pre-amble
- got there by bus and just a little walk to all our kind among the
trees for lovely family tributes - all brothers and...
Moving On - 6 Feb 07
When self knowledge has beaten home the home truths
And thorough examination has revealed the delicate balance in
all,
Then faith alone may tip the scales of fate.
Faith alone absolves the soul of hopelessness,
Courage comes...
Long weekend reading - 20 Jan 07
Of all the choices in impecunity open to me; my daughter's car, house,
fridge and grog cabinet, plus the lawn to sow out back when weather
and inspiration co-operate, my default option had me hooked on my
latest Leys Institute library acquisitions and reclining in both of my
two home locations...
Passion In - 9 Jan 07
Passion In
Love transcends all age
All obligations as fetters
The cage is sprung
Nothing beats being young
If this could be sung...
Pure Water from the Bore and Well - 29 Dec 06
There is nothing underhand or "pie-in-the-sky" about new
technology improving the water purification business.
It is now a timely innovation for a particular
segment of a critical market - dairy production and export for New
Zealand world wide....
In Memory of Lexie - 29 Dec 06
Lexie
My grand niece Lexie died last Sunday
In her mother's arms and aged just under three
Was born with an untreatable, incurable malady.
Under the sentence of death from the day ...
Firewood for Agenzia - 28 Dec 06
Hi Agi
Try google "firewood cut store" interesting pages on
firewood.
My experience:
Allow for a double row, stack from...
Content Management System up-date - 14 Nov 06
While I wait for "the muse" to wake in me again, this here is to
acknowledge my son-in-law, Harvey Kane, as the genius behind this user
friendly content management system which has me publishing...
Passion Out poem - 4 Apr 06
A poem of inner conflict. "Passion" is a word which has been
commandeered by the business world to describe that rare attribute
which "puts fire into the guts".
In this poem we look at...
Show Over - followed by "the blues" - 23 Feb 06
This 'Merry Wives of Windsor" was a great little show, getting up a
bit then falling over "- appens to all" - but neat to work with
brilliant young amateur actors - youth seem to find it that much...
"Tower Ravens Locked Up" NZ Herald News - 23 Feb 06
With bird flu in Europe, the Tower of London Yeoman Raven Master,
Derrick Coyle, has consigned his ravens to cages - word is if there
are not six ravens on duty at the tower as Charles II decreed...
Thank you Marty - 27 Jan 06
> Marty says --- > > the dam of dramatic wit has been bursted. > and
for some of those rhymes you should be arrested. > > Keep it up > Rob
replies ---- Arrestable rhymes are no laughing matter...
First night - fantastic - 18 Jan 06
Just done the first show - you would not believe how this show came
together. Dress rehearsal last night was like a dog's breakfast.
To-night - amazing!!! Not quite right, but at least very...
"Pistol" in Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" - 15 Jan 06
Am playing the part of "Pistol" in Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of
Windsor" in the Pumphouse Amphitheatre, Takapuna. Live from 18th
January to 11 th February - 12 shows - Book on 09 489 8360....
"Lovemarks" by Kevin Roberts - my weekend reading - 14 Jan 06
First Reactions: To love "Lovemark" as a Lovemark, do I respect the
brilliant articulation of a master of inculcation? That is my dilemna.
Yet the "Lovemark" philosophy has an attractive altruism...
Launched today - Poetry and Verse of Rob Tapper - 12th Jan. 2006 - 12 Jan 06
Are the graveyards heaving as the dead poets turn in their graves?
Hail Oscar to the defence!
Top Down and Bottom Up - 11 Jan 06Speak to me Julia Roberts my name poetry my passion my muse in your fame - 4 Jan 06